Qunar plans to go private as firms return to China bourses

Qunar Cayman Islands Ltd has received a preliminary offer from Ocean Management Ltd to buy all outstanding shares of the online travel agency, the move making it the latest example of a proposed privatization of a US-listed Chinese company.

NYC subway riders fight back lewdness

Groping, grinding all too common on city's crowded trains

'Waddling ducks' undergo stiletto therapy

Feminists, look away! Fashion police in Japan want to "empower" women by persuading them to wear high heels, insisting the country's historic "kimono culture" has led to many women having poor posture.

Despite vast water sources, farmers experience shortages

Khandu, an elderly villager from the western district of Punakha in Bhutan, has come to join hundreds of villagers to conduct a Buddhist ritual ceremony involving carrying religious texts on his back and walking along the streets.

In a first, Mideast hub Dubai eases liquor regulations

Dubai, the Mideast's desert party town, has just gotten even wetter.

Google Glass aims to help autistic children read faces

Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people's faces, one of the biggest challenges for people with the neurological disorder.

Lawmakers wind down gun protest

Democrats stage a 'sit in' opponents dismiss as a stunt

Led Zeppelin copyright case in hands of jury

A US jury will deliberate for a second day on Thursday on whether Led Zeppelin poached the opening to Stairway To Heaven from an obscure Los Angeles rock band.

Britons vote on whether to continue EU membership

More than 46 million people are eligible to take part in the referendum to decide country's future

Solar-powered plane completes first flight crossing Atlantic in 71 hours

The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain on Thursday after completing a 71-hour flight from New York in the first "magical" solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-powered airplane.

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Thousands commemorate slain lawmaker

Thousands of people gathered in London and cities around the world on Wednesday to commemorate British lawmaker Jo Cox, whose killing last week shocked the country amid a fiercely contested campaign over the future of Britain's place in Europe.